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Alan Sullivan, the Seablogger, who lives aboard a cruiser in Florida, has a built-in interest in the modern Mary Celeste found near the coast of Australia. He thinks the crew of three men went swimming, possibly in a flat calm, and the wind came up and blew their 40-foot catamaran motor-sailer away from them. The skipper’s family says it was a kidnapping. The police have ruled out foul play. Alan’s theory is plausible–"cats are fast…a mere puff could have borne it out of reach"–so is some kind of fight between the three. Otherwise the Kaz II will go down as another Mary Celeste, a ghost ship found adrift in the Atlantic in 1872 with no sign of the ten passengers or crew.